TENNIS

ATP/WTA PACIFIC LIFE OPEN

INDIAN WELLS, Men, Round IV: Roger Federer (1, Sui) bt Ivan Ljubicic (13, Cro) 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4) Guillermo Canas (14, Arg) bt Taylor Dent (30, US) 6-3 retired Lleyton Hewitt (2, Aus) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 6-1, 6-0 Andy Roddick (3, US) bt Fernando Gonzalez (17, Chi) 6-4, 6-3 Andre Agassi (9, US) bt Guillermo Coria (5, Arg) 6-4, 6-1 Carlos Moya (7, Esp) bt Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 7-5, 6-2 Nicolas Kiefer (29, Ger) bt David Nalbandian (10, Arg) 6-1, 6-3 Tim Henman (6, GBR) bt Tommy Robredo (12, Esp) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2

WOMEN: Quarter finals ? Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt Conchita Martinez (Esp) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 Elena Dementieva (4, Rus) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (5, Rus) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.

FOOTBALL

FRENCH CUP

PARIS: Round III: Boulogne-sur-Mer (IV) 3 (Guillaume Ducatel 7, William Louiron 68, Ehouman 89) Nantes 2 (Gregory Pujol 11, Nicolas Savinaud 64-penalty)

LIGUE 1

Racing Strasbourg 0 Monaco 0 Saint-Etienne 3 (Pascal Feindouno 53, Frederic Piquionne 64, 66) AC Ajaccio 0 Sochaux 2 (Araujo Ilan 12-penalty, 60) Metz 1 (Gregory Proment 17-penalty).

PREMIER LEAGUE

Charlton Athletic 2 (Jerome Young 4, Danny Murphy 85) Tottenham Hotspur 0 Liverpool 0 Blackburn Rovers 0.

PRIMERA LIGA

Athletic Bilbao 1 (Santi Ezquerro 36) Getafe 2 (Daniel Kome 64, Michel 80).

ITALIAN CUP

Quarter final, Leg II: Udinese 4 (Vincenzo Iaquinta 20, Stefano Mauri 61, 90+4, David Di Michele 81-penalty) AC Milan 1 (Jon Dahl Tomasson 77) Udinese win 6-4 on aggregate Fiorentina 1 (Matteo Ferrari 11-own goal) AS Roma 0 AS Roma win 7-6 on penalties.

FRIENDLY INTERNATIONAL

HARARE: Zimbabwe 1 (Cephas Chimedza, 53) Botswana 1 (Moenedi Moathiaping, 72).

UEFA CUP

KNOCKOUT Round II, Leg I: In Bucharest ? Steaua Bucharest (Rom) 0 Villarreal (Esp) 0.

KNOCKOUT Round II, Leg II: In Newcastle ? Newcastle United 4 (Kieron Dyer 18, Alan Shearer 45, 69, Lee Bowyer 54) Olympiakos Piraeus 0 Newcastle won 7-1 on aggregate In Alkmaar: AZ Alkmaar 2 (Barry van Galen 9, Martijn Meerdink 65) Shakhtar Donetsk (Elano 67) 1 AZ Alkmaar won 5-2 on aggregate.

For the book

Kenya?s Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Isabella Ochichi will double up and run the short and long course races at the world cross country championships in St Galmier this weekend